Category Archives: Civil Society

Civic Engagement and Wellbeing

A recent Gallup survey found that, worldwide, people who self-identified as having a higher personal wellbeing are more likely to be civically engaged than other residents More »

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Parties and Civic Engagement

It has become rather popular these days to lamblast partisanship as a prime enemy of public deliberation. More »

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In Praise of Community-Based Planning

Dudley Street in Boston, has made major changes on both aesthetic and environmental improvements thanks to community-based planning:
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Alexandria Playgrounds

The City of Alexandria, VA is working with residents on a project that includes some aspects of this latter end of the civic engagement spectrum More »

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Civic Health Snapshot

Several months ago we released the 2011 Golden Governance report in collaboration with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC). More »

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